Drie Fonteinen Faro | Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen

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Sampled on tap at the Drie Fonteinen restaurant with lunch. What a wonderful find as the style is hard to find and on tap ever more so. Beer was served with a copper color and just the slightest amount of bubbles on the edge of the glass but there was no carbonation at all on this one which is due to the fact of how it is served. The aroma was sweet with some slight acidic notes as well. Taste was sweet but not overpowering. Refreshing and just a hint of tart but sweet was the overall tone of this beer and made for a great lunch beer.

Wow, can't believe only 4 reviews of this, and I get to be 5th. Had this at In 't Spinnekopke in Brussels, on tap by the pitcher. I regret that I was already pretty drunk when I ordered this. It's notoriously difficult to get a beer list here. I got their house blond that they recommended and it was mediocre, so I figured I had to do something because I didn't come to Belgium to drink. So I stood up and got everyone's attention, and in my best Samuel L. Jackson impression, yelled, "Enough is enough! I have HAD IT with these motherf***ing beers in this motherf***ing restaurant!" A beer list was procured and I figured it was time to try my first beer in this style.

A - Very attractive cloudy dark brown color with a substantial foamy off-white head and good lacing. Really made me want to drink it.

On cask at the Drie Fonteinen Lambic Room during last week's Belgium trip. Reviewed from notes.

Served in a small Drie Fonteinen stange glass.

Poured a slightly-hazed medium orange color with a bit of a rust-colored tint. No head or lacing.

The smell was pretty funky with quite a bit of must. Some citrus there as well. Certainly seemed like a Drie Fonteinen product from the start with some nice must and earth to go along with a bit of sweetness.

Mouthfeel was medium with just a hint of carbonation. Light bit of funk and faint acidity.

Very enjoyable. I liked this one quite a bit more than the Cantillon Faro we had later on, though of course each one varied from batch to batch throughout the trip.

A rare beer style that has strange characteristics for a lambic beer, even more so from a traditional producer like Drie Fonteinen.

The Faro is an amber-copper looking beer that arrives at the table completely flat and devoid of all life. It has no head whatsoever, bar one or two large bubbles that have yet to burst and that are left over from the pour from the Jug.

Aromas are sweet with some lactic hints and a burnt sugar smell.

This is a draft lambic beer, but it is the bad boy of the lambic family and it never behaves like it should. For there is no sourness here, just a sweet flat sugary offering that has a light lambic lactic finish. The Faro is made by blending draft lambic with brown sugar. The sugar can sometimes restart fermentation in the lambic, but I dont think this happens in the case of Drie Fontenien. Interesting and hard to compare, unless you do so against other traditional Faros which due to their lack of availability is quite easy. Not as good as the offerings from Cantillon or Boon, but slightly better than the one from Lindemans.

I like to try a Faro, once in a while, and as I was in the Drie Fonteinen Café recently, I made an effort to try it. Not my cup of tea really, but nevertheless, not a bad example of the style. I noted that it was drunk mainly by older women when I was in the Café, I would say that this beer appeals to the palates rather well from this sector of Belgium society, if that does sound like a rash generalization.

Unless you are a real fan, or a Woman Pensioner, I feel that you may struggle to drink more than one of these.

A: Straw colored with no head, just an occasional bubble and no lacing.
S: Good barnyard with some mustiness and grapefruit.
T: Dray and flavorful, yeast and dust. Nicely complex for a lambik.
M: Very light bodied, even for a lambik, it's a bit on the watery side.
D: Nice one. could have better body.

On tap at the 3F in Beersel. What a treat.
A: incredible head, rocky, dense, cloudy rosey color
S: sweet, effervescent, but not too sweet, earthy
T: great tart-sweet lambic but nice balance of sourness
M: very good beer, great taste
O: very, very good beer